About 150 vigils will be taking place across the country (and over 10 here in NC) as the nation's highest court hears oral arguments in the Prop 8 and DOMA cases on March 26 and 27. Will you join us?

Equality NC is honored to host the March 26th vigil along with HRC and the ACLU of NC. The vigil will be led by community leaders Tracy Hollister and Maddy Goss, who will both MC the event. Tracy and Maddy led the state's largest phone bank against Amendment One last Spring at the UU Fellowship of Raleigh.

The event will also involve:
* Featured speakers:
-Jimmy Creech (Methodist marriage equality advocate, author of "Adam's Gift, A Memoir of a Pastor’s Calling to Defy the Church’s Persecution of Lesbians and Gays")
-Raleigh City Councilor Mary-Ann Baldwin (advocate for equal rights who has a gay sister)
-NC Representative Marcus Brandon (only openly out LGBT member of the NC General Assembly)
-Jennifer Rudinger (Executive Director of the ACLU of NC, which is challenging NC Supreme Court’s ban on 2nd parent adoption)
-Mark Zumbach (advocate for separation of church and state, and President Emeritus of Triangle Freethought Society)
* Music by Someone's Sister (Georgia Winfree and Katherine Jones)
* Candlelight vigil to light the way to justice
* Live tweeting other state & national events. #Light2Justice

Let's be 200+ strong to show our fellow North Carolinians that Amendment One will not silence us. We stand strong in our conviction that we all deserve the freedom to marry. Here are our messages:

-A growing bipartisan majority of Americans (75% of voters) say the freedom to marry the person you love is a Constitutional right.
-The marriage issue is really about freedom and treating everyone equally under the law. Freedom means freedom for everyone.
-One of our most basic American values is to treat others the way we’d want to be treated.
-Loving, committed, gay and lesbian couples want to marry for the same reasons as straight couples.